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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Why bless your little heart, dahlin.  No one paid any attention to your 
other posts so you have gotten desperate.  Poor little wanker, are you that 
lonely that even negative attention is better than no attention at all? 
Must be since it appears you are so desperately crying out for attention 
from someone from EE VIL California <g>

Just curious, have you been having these problems with your memory for very 
long?  Might want to see someone about this problem.  To refresh your 
failing memory, it was the U.S. I talked about, not the Philippines.  Don't 
have to take my word for it, you can type your little fingers away and look 
up S.J.15 (introduced by Senator Brownback of Kansas) and H.J. RES. 3 
(introduced by Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis of Virginia), or  you can look 
into that little section of PHS (Public Health Services) known as Population 
Affairs.   Dr. Louis Hellman, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Population 
Affairs presented statistics confirming that the U.S. gave federal grants 
for sterilizing low income people, funds reimbursing states for 90% of the 
cost of sterilizing indigent women.
Now, since you seem interested in locals other than the U.S., maybe you'd be 
interested in the funding through the Rockefeller Foundation for the 
sterilization of Columbian women.  Or the U.S. imposed population control 
program administered by the Peace Corps who sterilized Quechua Indian women 
in Bolivia.

But I bet you were really referring to me quoting ol' Bushy I when he was a 
UN ambassador.  I can't possibly be held responsible for his involvement in 
eugenics and saying "It is quite clear that one of the major challenges of 
the 1970s will be to curb the world's fertility."  I mean, you can't blame 
me because he worked hand in glove with Willliam H. Draper III.  I didn't 
invent the Sterilization Council or Dulles and Rockefeller's Population 
Council.  I didn't make the Bushies become members of the American Eugenics 
Society.  I didn't make then UN Ambassador Bush push the U.S. Agency for 
International Development to sign a contract with the Sterilization League 
of America.

Oh, I get it.  I don't pretend all that didn't happen, won't help rewrite 
history to make them look like good guys, so therefore, following your 
twisted logic, then I must be spinning.

That's o.k., I'm sure folks can see for themselves who is hysterical and 
flaming and who finds some folks an amusing example of why Ronnie Baby 
shouldn't have closed up all those "country clubs."

So, since I wouldn't want you to get some major "error" readings in your wee 
little brain and have you blow all your circuits by believing anything I 
have to say, here's a list to help you can do some reading and educate 
yourself:
 Beverly Horsburgh, Schr degreesodinger's Cat, Eugenics, and the Compulsory 
Sterilization of Welfare Mothers: Deconstructing an Old/New Rhetoric and 
Constructing the Reproductive Right to Natality for Low-Income Women of 
Color, 17 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 536 (1996).
 Herbert Hovenkamp, Social Science and Segregation before Brown, 1985 Duke 
L.J. 624.

 Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald, Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic 
Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, 
Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers (1993).

 Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Societal History of Birth 
Control in America (rev. ed. 1990).

 The Immigration Act of 1924, ch.190, §11(a), 43 Stat. 153, 159, amended by 
The Immigration and Nationality Act, ch. 477, §201, 66 Stat. 175 (1952), 
amended by Pub. L. No. 89-236, §1, 79 Stat. 911 (1965).

 Leon J. Kamin, The Pioneers of IQ Testing, in The Bell Curve Debate 
(1995).

 Howard M. Sachar, A History of Jews in America (1992).

 Adam Miller, Professors of Hate, in The Bell Curve Debate: History, 
Documents, Opinions (Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman eds., 1995).

 Robert N. Proctor, Genomics and Eugenics: How Fair is the Comparison?, in 
Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics as Guides.

 Charles Rutherford, Reproductive Freedoms and African American Women, 4 
YALE J.L. & FEMINISM 255 (1992).

 Relf v. Weinberger, 372 F. Supp. 1196, 1199 (D.D.C. 1974).

 American Indian Journal of the Institute for the Development of Indian 
Law, (Feb. 1977).

 Akwesasne Notes, Sterilization of Young Native Women Alleged at Indian 
Hospital (July, 1974).

 Helen Temkin-Greener, Surgical Fertility Regulation Among Women on the 
Navajo Indian Reservation, American Journal of Public Health, (April, 1981).

 Brint Dillingham, American Indian Women and I.H.S. Sterilization 
Practices, American Indian Journal (January 1977).

 Margot Liberty, Rural and Urban Omaha Indian Fertility, Human Biology 
(February 1976).

 Gayle Mark Jarvis, The Theft of Life, Akwesasne Notes (1977).

 U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Indian Health Trends 
and Services [report] (GPO, 1978).

 Leslie A. Westoff and Charles F. Westoff, From Now to Zero, Little, Brown 
& Co. (1971).

 U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Family Planning, 
Contraception, Voluntary Sterilization and Abortion, (GPO, 1978).

 Mark Miller, Native American Peoples on the Trail of Tears Once More, 
America (December 1978).

 Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments, Akwesasne Notes 
(Autumn, 1977).

 Bill Wagner, Lo the Poor and Sterilized Indian, America (January 29, 
1977).

 Janet Karstan Larson, And Then There Were None: Is Federal Policy 
Endangering the American Indian Species?, Christian Century (January 26, 
1977).

 Thomas B. Littlewood, The Politics of Population Control, The University 
of Notre Dame Press (1977).

And then you can read Relf et al. v. Weinberger et al. and National Welfare 
Rights Organization v. Weinberger et al.

Then proceed to the September 21, 1972 Federal Register for the HEW 
regulations which were amended.  Then again to 18 April 1974, for new 
regulations that were amended due to the above referenced cases.

I would also refer you to Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota, chairman 
of the Senate Interior Subcommittee on Indian Affairs who conducted an 
initial investigation of charges of involuntary sterilizations and who 
inturn referred his findings to the GAO on 30 April 1975 for further 
investigation.  Said report was released 6 November 1976.

Add to the reading material Dr. Connie Pinkerton-Uri's study.  The 1977 
National Council of Church's Interreligious Foundation for Community 
Organization conference in DC.

And for the rest of your lonely days, here is more reading material, these 
Notes should keep you too busy to throw online temper tantrums for 
attention:
Gail Mark Jarvis, "The Theft of Life," Akwesasne Notes (September 1977):

Mark Miller, Judith Miller, and Chris Szechenyl, "Native American Peoples on 
the Trail of Tears Once More," America 139 (9 December 1978)

"Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments," Akwesasne Notes 9 
(early spring 1977): 4; Brint Dillingham, "Indian Women and Indian Health 
Services Sterilization Practices," American Indian Journal 3 (January 1977): 
27-28; Janet Karston Larson, "'And Then There Were None,'" Christian Century 
26 (January 1977): 62-63; "Marie Sanchez: For the Women," Akwesasne Notes 9 
(December 1977): 14-15; and James Robison, "U.S. Sterilizes 25 Percent of 
Indian Women: Study," Chicago Tribune, 22 May 1977, sec. 1, p. 36.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 
The Indian Health Program of the U.S. Public Health Service (Washington DC: 
Government Printing Office, 1969), 17; Alan L. Sorkin, "Health and Economic 
Development," in Public Policy Impacts on American Indian Economic 
Development," (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988), 145; and 
Deborah A. Sullivan and Ruth Beeman, Utilization and Evaluation of Maternity 
Care by American Indians in Arizona, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico 
Press, 1982), 1.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, The Indian Health 
Program, 17; Sorkin, "Health and Economic Development," 145; J. G. 
Townshend, "Indian Health--Past, Present, and Future," in The Changing 
Indian, ed. Oliver LaFarge (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942), 31; 
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Evaluation Report: The 
Indian Health Service's Implementation of the Indian Self-Determination 
Process, by the National Indian Health Board and American Indian Technical 
Services (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, April 1984), 4. The 
Public Health Service was originally created in 1798 to provide for the 
health care of mariners. The service's responsibilities expanded in the late 
1800s to include the health care needs of the nation, and in 1953 Dwight D. 
Eisenhower placed the Public Health Service under the control of the 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Francis Paul Prucha, Documents of United States Indian Policy, (Lincoln: 
University of Nebraska Press, 1975), 237; U.S. Department of Health, 
Education, and Welfare, U.S. Public Health Service, The Indian Health 
Program of the U.S. Public Health Service, (Washington DC: Government 
Printing Office, 1978), 19; Sorkin, "Health and Economic Development," 146; 
and John L. Schultz, White Medicine, Indian Lives . . . As Long As the Grass 
Shall Grow (Denver: Colorado State University Press, 1983), 11.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, The Indian Health Program 
(1978), 20-21; and Sorkin, "Health and Economic Development," 146, and 
149-52.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 
Indian Health Trends and Services (Washington DC: Government Printing 
Office, 1974), 66; and Leslie Aldridge Westoff and Charles F. Westoff, From 
Now to Zero: Fertility, Contraception and Abortion in America, (Boston: 
Little, Brown, 1971), 302.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Public Health 
Service, Indian Health Trends and Services (Washington DC: Government 
Printing Office, 1975), 16.

Marc D. Hiller, Medical Ethics and the Law: Implications for Public Policy, 
(Cambridge: Ballinger, 1981), 198.

Kermit L. Hall, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United 
States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 788; and Robert G. 
Weisbord, Genocide? Birth Control and the Black American (Westport CT: 
Greenwood Press, 1975), 139.

John Morton Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974 
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 200; and Hall, The Oxford Companion, 351-53.

Dick Grosboll, "Sterilization Abuse: Current State of the Law and Remedies 
for Abuse," Golden Gate University Law Review 10 (summer 1980), 1149-50.

Katie Relf et al., plaintiffs, v. Casper W. Weinberger et al., defendants 
[and] National Welfare Rights Organization, plaintiff, v. Casper W. 
Weinberger et al., defendants, Federal Supplement: Cases Argued and 
Determined in the United States District Courts, United States Customs 
Courts, and Rulings of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 372 
(District of Columbia, 1974), 1201.

A. Edward Doudera, "Informed Consent: How Much Should the Patient Know?" in 
Rights and Responsibilities in Modern Medicine, Ethics, Humanism, and 
Medicine, vol. 2, ed. Marc D. Basson (New York: Alan R. Liss, 1981), 102-4; 
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 
Legal Aspects of PHS Medical Care, by Eli P. Bernzweig, Office of the 
General Council, PHS Publication no. 1468 (Washington DC: Government 
Printing Office, 1966), 28 and 30; and Hiller, Medical Ethics and the Law, 
102 and 198.

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of the Secretary, 
"Sterilization Guidelines," Federal Register 38 (3 August 1973), 20930-31; 
and U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of the 
Secretary, "Sterilization Guidelines," Federal Register 38 (21 September 
1973), 26459-61.

"Katie Relf et al., plaintiffs," 1201-3; U.S. Department of Health, 
Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, "Policies of General 
Applicability: Restrictions Applicable to Sterilization Procedures in 
Federally Assisted Family Planning Projects," Federal Register 39 (18 April 
1974), 13873.

International Indian Treaty Council, "Memo to Karl/Perry/Phil from Patty 
Marks/Abourezk Office, re: Native American Sterilization," (1978), n.p.

Dillingham, "Indian Women and IHS Sterilization Practices," 27-28; Bill 
Wagner, "Lo, the Poor and Sterilized Indian," America 136 (29 January 1977): 
75; and Jarvis, "The Theft of Life," 30-32.

Comptroller of the United States, Investigations of Allegations Concerning 
Indian Health Services (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 4 
November 1976), 4, 18-20, and 25.

Comptroller of the United States, Investigations of Allegations Concerning 
Indian Health Services, 19-20, 24; Larson, "'And Then There Were None,'" 
61-62; "Sterilization of Young Native Women Alleged at Indian Hospital--48 
Operations in July, 1974 Alone," Akwesasne Notes (early summer, 1974), 22; 
and Harry Amana, "Legal Defense Fund Benefit Set For Indian Woman: Says She 
Was Illegally Sterilized," Philadelphia Tribune (15 May 1976), G3.

Comptroller of the United States, Investigations of Allegations Concerning 
Indian Health Services, 20.

Lucille Whalen, Human Rights: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara: 
University of California Press, 1989), 169. For information on 
sterilizations of African American and Hispanic women see Sherrill Cohen and 
Nadine Taub, eds., Reproductive Laws for the 1990s (Clifton NJ: Humana 
Press, 1989), 12, 45-47, and 354; Linda Jenness, "Black Women Fight 
Sterilization," The Militant 39 (15 August 1975), 12; Mariana Hernandez, 
"L.A. Women Protest Forced Sterilizations," The Militant 38 (20 December 
1974), 17; Kathy Schwerin, Pippa Franks, and the San Francisco Women's 
Health Center, "San Francisco Women's Health Center," Off Our Backs, Inc., 
Washington, (October 1976), 3-4; and Thomas Littlewood, The Politics of 
Population Control (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), 
80-81. For information on physicians' attitudes toward the sterilization of 
minority women see Bernard Rosenfeld, Sidney M. Wolfe, and Robert E. 
McGarrah Jr., A Health Research Group Study on Surgical Sterilization: 
Present Abuses and Proposed Regulations (Washington DC: Health Research 
Group, 29 October 1973), 2-7; Harry Ring, "Doctor Exposes Forced 
Sterilization in L.A.," The Militant 39 (5 September 1975), 26; and "Survey 
Reveals Many Doctors 'Actively Push' Sterilizations: 'Many of the Women 
Didn't Really Understand What Was Going On,'" Liberation News Service 673 
(25 January 1975), 12.

Brint Dillingham, "Sterilization of Native Americans," American Indian 
Journal 3 (January 1977): 16; Jarvis, "The Theft of Life," 30-33; "Killing 
Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments," 4-6; Larson, "'And Then There 
Were None,'" 61-63; Miller, "Native American People On the Trail of Tears," 
422-25; Robison, "U.S. Sterilizes 25 Percent of Indian Women: Study," 36; 
Margot Liberty, "Rural and Urban Omaha Indian Fertility," Human Biology 
(February 1976): 69; Rosemary Lynch, "Leadership and Tribal Government," 
Bismarck (ND) Tribune, 23 October 1981, 48; and Greg Turosak, "Charting a 
Path For the Future," Bismarck (ND) Tribune, 23 October 1981, 49.

Brint Dillingham, "Sterilization: A Conference and a Report," American 
Indian Journal 4 (January 1978): 13.

Rosemary Lynch, "Leadership and Tribal Government," Bismarck (ND) Tribune, 
23 October 1981, 48; and Greg Turosak, "Charting a Path For the Future," 
Bismarck (ND) Tribune, 23 October 1981, 49.

"Growing Fight Against Sterilization of Native Women," Akwesasne Notes 11 
(late winter 1979), 29; Everett R. Rhoades, "Barriers to Health Care: The 
Unique Problems Facing American Indians," Civil Rights Digest 10 (fall 
1977): 31; and Women of All Red Nations (Porcupine SD: WARN, 1977), 23.

"Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments," 4; Robison, "U.S. 
Sterilizes 25 Percent of Indian Women: Study," 36; Brint Dillingham, 
"Sterilization of Native Americans," American Indian Journal 3 (July 1977): 
16; "Growing Fight Against Sterilization of Native Women," 29; Jarvis, "The 
Theft of Life," 30-33; "Killing Our Future: Sterilization and Experiments," 
4-6; Larson, "'And Then There Were None,'" 61-63; Miller, "Native American 
People On the Trail of Tears," 422-25; "Oklahoma: Sterilization of Native 
Women," Akwesasne Notes 6 (early winter 1974) 6-7; and Women of All Red 
Nations, 7 and 14.

"Marie Sanchez: For the Women," Akwesasne Notes 9 (December 1977), 14-15; 
Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes, Lakota Woman (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 
1990), 78 and 244; Clark, Culture/Childbearing Health Professionals, 24; 
Robert M. Veatch, Population Policy and Ethics: The American Experience: A 
Project of the Research Group on Ethics and Population of the Institute of 
Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences (New York: Halsted Press, 1977), 9 
and 239; and Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins, and Michael Gross, eds., 
Birth Control and Controlling Birth (Clifton NJ: Humana Press, 1980): 253.

Ann Clark, Culture/Childbearing Health Professionals (Philadelphia: F. A. 
Davis, 1978), 28; David E. Jones, Sanapia: Comanche Medicine Woman (Prospect 
Heights IL: Waveland Press, 1984), 57-60; Eric Stone, "Medicine Among the 
American Indians," in Clio Medica, Primers on the History of Medicine, vol. 
7, ed. E. B. Krumbhaar (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1932; reprint, New York: 
Hafner, 1962), 154-57 (page citations are to the reprint edition); Valerie 
S. Mathes, "A New Look at the Role of Women in Indian Society," American 
Indian Quarterly 2 (summer 1975), 133-34; and Virgil J. Vogel, American 
Indian Medicine (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970), 239-45.

Myla F. Thyrza Carpio, "Lost Generation: The Involuntary Sterilization of 
American Indian Women" (master's thesis, Arizona State University, 1995), 
31-34; Larry Blackwood, "Alaska Native Fertility Trends, 1950-1978," 
Demography 18 (May 1981), 173 and 177; Charles W. Warren et al., "Assessing 
the Reproductive Behavior of On- and Off-reservation American Indian 
Females," Social Biology 37 (spring-summer 1990), 71-72 and 76-82; David 
Glenn Smith, "Fertility Differentials within a Subdivided Population: A 
Controlled Comparison of Four Sells Papago Isolates," Human Biology 52 (May 
1980), 325-26, 330-31, and 334-38; Margot Liberty, Richard Scaglion, and 
David V. Hughey, "Rural and Urban Seminole Indian Fertility," Human Biology 
48 (December 1976), 741-42, 743-44, and 746-50; Stephen J. Kunitz, "Navajo 
and Hopi Fertility, 1971-1972," Human Biology 46 (September 1974), 435-36 
and 448-50; and Stephen J. Kunitz, "Fertility, Mortality, and Social 
Organization," Human Biology 48 (May 1976), 361-64 and 374-76.

Jane Lawrence, "Indian Health Service: Sterilization of Native American 
Women, 1960s-1970s," (master's thesis, Oklahoma State University, 1999), 
97-98.

Now if this doesn't keep you busy enough, you might try the National 
Academies Press.  They have multiple articles.  Or, if you *honestly* are 
interested, you can go to the National Archieves or head on over to the 
Mormons and look at the hundreds, if not thousands of relevant documentation 
they have.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>


> Hey Lyndie, spin for us once again that yarn about the Bushies and the
> sterilizations in the Philippines.  Maybe you can work Ken Lay and
> Arnold in there somewhere.  It was great entertainment, the sort I live 
> for.